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It's all grist to the mill

Meaning

Everything can be used to move toward a profit or conclusion.

Origin

Grist is the corn that is brought to a mill to be ground into flour. The phrase is quite old and is first cited in Arthur Golding's translation of The sermons of J. Calvin upon Deuteronomie, 1583:

"There is no lykelihoode that those thinges will bring gryst to the mill."